Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

A tailor-made love story.

5/16/20021h 56min6.8/10(75 TMDB votes)

Drama

Directed by Dai Sijie

Plot

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.

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Cast

Zhou Xun

Little Seamstress

Chen Kun

Luo Min

Liu Ye

Ma Jianling

Wang Shuangbao

Head of the Village

Cong Zhijun

Old Tailor

Wang Hongwei

Four Eyes

Xiao Xiong

Mother of Four Eyes

Zuohui Tang

Old Mill Worker

Chen Tianyu

Director of the Commune

Qing-yun Fan

Doctor

Jie Min

Peasant

Zhang Chenghe

Peasant

Xu Yukun

Peasant

Lia Mei

Female Villager

Jing Fang

Female Villager